State of North Carolina No. 35

To all whom
these presents shall come, greeting know ye, that we, for and in consideration
of the sum of fifty shillings for every hundred acres hereby granted, paid unto
our treasury by Samuel Harper have given and granted, and by these presents do
give and grant unto the said Samuel Harper a tract of land, containing one
hundred and seventy-five acres, lying and being in our county of Warren on the
north side of Reedy Creek beginning at a white oak on the said creek and on the
north side the Baptist meeting house road at the latter Ed thence down said road
by consentable line in north twenty-five degrees east sixty poles thence north
twenty degrees east sixty two poll to in black jack in the road thence north
forty-five degrees east thirteen poll to a stump and Jonesí old line thence by
Personís line north 14 degrees west hundred and twenty-four poll to white oak
thence Newell's north twenty degrees west twenty-three poll to a hickory thence
has other line north twenty degrees west six pole to a hickory on the court side
of the road thence up the road joining the Newell's north seventy degrees west
sixty-four poll to a blackjack mare the head of Great Branch thence down said
branch south ten degrees west hundred and thirty-five poll to a white oak on the
mentioned Creek thence down the sum windings of the Creek to the first station,
witnessed Richard Caswell, Esquire our Governor Captain General and
commander-in-chief at Kingston, the twentieth day of September in the fourth
year of our Independence, and in the year of our Lord 1770 by his Excellency use
command.

Signed Richard Caswell

William
Shepherd

The foregoing
deed was truly registered the 5th day of September 1780 by William
Johnson, Public Register.

[Out of respect of the Ethnic heritage of
the Slaves I have listed them as Negro or Slave where the records do not
capitalize the words.]